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  1. Old Red
    Raffy always got more ink in the game threads. Devers Forevers one one AB, and Never Devers the next.
  2. Old Red
    Moving Raffy down in the lineup wouldn’t have been a rash decision to me, and maybe even justified at the time. Remember what happens when you get giddy especially after a small, small sample size.
  3. Old Red
    I’m not disputing that, or even disagreeing with that. I’ve always said Raffy playing 3B didn’t bother me like it bothered you, and others, and as it was pointed out by others on here Raffy playing 3B as bad as he did wasn’t the Reason the Red Sox have been a 500, or below club the past 3 years, nor was it why the club didn’t make the postseason. There were others who weren’t good on D at their position either, and it was the Red Sox who kept it that way.
  4. Old Red
    So it has been a small sample size all year when Raffy wasn’t doing much of anything, and now after a even smaller 3 game series the naysayers were all wrong, and Raffy is now back, and proven everyone wrong, and he back?👏
  5. Old Red
    Let’s not get to excited yet. It has been pointed out he had a good weekend earlier against the Cardinals, and that’s all it lasted. Cleveland didn’t have any hard throwers except for their BP, so we’ll see how he fairs against Toronto.
  6. Old Red
    NBA Playoffs, NFL Draft, and NASCAR was on the docket for me this weekend, so the Red Sox were on the back burner. Good to see the Red Sox come back, and win 2 after losing the first one. Looks like the bats came alive yesterday, and padded some of those OPS that everyone raves about. I know they look better now, but that’s a little misleading, because they lost a lot of games when they were scuffling when the OPS weren’t so high. Hopefully they take the bats with them to Toronto.
  7. Old Red
    I’m not disagreeing, or disputing any of this. I was just stating facts. Raffy is overpaid as a DH as Yoshida was.
  8. Old Red
    Agree so far, but I want to see how Cro Man looks in Aug-Sept, and hopefully Oct. yes some things have gone right, but what’s most important the W-L isn’t nothing to be happy about in a weak AL East, and a American League too.It’s postseason, or bust, or it would be another wasted season.
  9. Old Red
    NNN you’re wrong again. The Red Sox did sign Devers to be a 3B. That’s a fact. I kept saying the Red Sox were just playing the cards they dealt themselves despite the results being bad on D, and that’s a fact. I didn’t ridicule anyone about the idea, or suggestion of signing Chapman or anyone else, and I repeatedly said I was posting what I thought what the Red Sox would do, and not what I would do, and that’s a fact also. It also seems pretty much undisputed that Raffy was told by the Red Sox when he signed that he would be the 3B for the foreseeable future. That changed. NNN🤭🙈!
  10. Old Red
    I agree, and like I kept saying before Bregman was added that the Red Sox were just playIng the cards they had dealt themselves, which meant the players you mentioned. When they were all hitting it doesn’t look as bad, but when they are not it’s even worse, and just not good roster construction. They didn’t sign Masa to just hang out, and collect his $18M, and they didn’t sign Raffy to be a $30M DH either.
  11. Old Red
    It was nice to get at lest 1 win today, but pretty much another day of MEH.
  12. Old Red
    For Raffy it’s playing 3B.🤭
  13. Old Red
    My point being that not every move, or a change of position is, because someone sucks at what they are doing like the situation with Raffy. I haven’t said Raffy is pouting,or that he’s not hitting, because of moving to DH, but it could be more of a WTF attitude.
  14. Old Red
    Bingo! George Scott was moved off 3B years ago to 1B, and was a great 1B, and the same with Youck, but neither Scott, or Youck were moved off 3B, because they wasn’t a good 3B. Raffy on the other hand sucked at 3B, which had been mentioned on here TMTC times. Every change to a different position is not because a player is bad at the position he’s moved from, so every player that does is a different situation. Raffy is not a different situation. He sucked at 3B, and the Red Sox saw that DH was the only option for him, because he supposedly can still hit, but he’s sucking at DH too at the moment. I’m pretty positive that Raffy sees this as a demotion, which is most important.
  15. Old Red
    They already know that. Masa could have been the DH in Boston on game 1, but it seems that spot has been taken now. Masa could have been DH anywhere else on game 1. Anthony had Nothing to do with Masa not DH anywhere else. You’re right he’s just sitting things out collecting his $18M until the Red Sox find a place for him.
  16. Old Red
    Celtics night tonight anyway, so nice to see two tomorrow.
  17. Old Red
    So he can’t hit now, because he can throw good enough.
  18. Old Red
    He was able to play in ST, so there has to be some kind of technicality that he isn’t, and if there isn’t it’s a head scratcher.
  19. Old Red
    Knowing Cora it’s a lot longer than a yardstick.
  20. Old Red
    Putting DEMOTED as is is calling it as it is. Just like Masa was demoted to DH last year, which he probably didn’t like, but everyone is different, and might of handled things differently, or better. So what if Devers sees it as a demotion? Well if it affects his psyche, which affects his play, and I don’t know if it does, but that would be a BIG deal. Why Masa isn’t playing at Woo could be just some kind of paperwork manipulating I don’t know.
  21. Old Red
    Baring injury Houck will have as long a leash as the hitters, or non hitters as the case may be IMO.
  22. Old Red
    Until Masa was ready? Masa was ready to DH in ST' or was I imagining that Masa got 35 AB? Masa would have opened the season just as he did last season as the Red Sox DH, but Raffy was DEMOTED to that position! so Masa just hangs out, and collects his $18M playing catch. Roster Construction at its best.
  23. Old Red
    It has nothing to do with being a right move in Raffy’s mind. You are so worried moving Raffy down the order as being perceived as a demotion, but you’re not concerned about outside of being benched moving to DH was, and is the biggest demotion of all. and I think Raffy does.
  24. Old Red
    2B has been a Big need for several seasons outside of the year Story played there. Campbell is the 2B now, and he needs all the work he can get there, it surely does him no good as a 2B playing the OF. RAF Man said last year he took him a few games to adjust going back between SS, and CF last year. Just, because guys can play more than 1 position doesn’t mean they have to, or they are better for it, or the team either for that matter outside of injuries happening, and a move is needed because of it.
  25. Old Red
    And I would give an Iron Sheik response to that. Spit Pewey.
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